Russian Entrepreneurs Face Choice of Bribes or Prison
975 views · Published 27 June 2008 · 4:51 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · News & Politics
Entrepreneurs flourish when they can depend on the viability of a country's courts, which are often asked to enforce contracts or settle business disputes. But in Russia, business is suffering from what President Dmitri Medvedev has called "legal nihilism", or widespread disrespect for the law. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky examines how official abuse of the law created a risk that two local entrepreneurs in the chemical industry never imagined.
